The wings of a computer engineer
The wings of a computer engineer

Personal blog for Timothy D Meadows II

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The wings of a computer engineer

The wings of a computer engineer

Personal blog for Timothy D Meadows II

Orion DELTA 3d Printer

In 2013, i purchased an Orion DELTA 3d Printer. I justified the printer to myself because my materials construction skills are non-existent. I'm writing about it now. Because of the quality of the product it's self. This printer with very little maintenance has lasted me 3 years. The only thing I've had to do is grease the rails, and, re-…

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New Blog

I have setup a new blog. For reference for those that might not of seen the old one. It was using Wordpress, at, wordpress.com. The new blog is hosted by Microsoft Azure, protected by Cloudflare, and, powered by Ghost, Node.js, and, SQLite3. I had to bring all the previous posts, images, and, videos over manually. Some of them where clean…

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Windows Compatibility Information Leak?

Found something interesting today. Inside of Windows Registry, Microsoft, will keep a copy of all applications that require compatibility settings. While this is obviously a requirement (has to be stored somewhere). It looks like windows does not actually purge this information. At all… In fact, it may even create duplicate entries for va…

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Ubuntu on Inspiron 11 3147 (2 in 1) and dw_dmac

On August 24th, 2014 i purchased a Dell Inspiron 11 3147 2 in 1 Laptop & Tablet combo (The 4GB Quad-Core edition). The system came pre-installed with Windows 8.1 which personally i hate. The first thing i did when i got it was install Ubuntu 12.04. This was the officially supported Ubuntu version according to Dell. The only real compl…

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Awkun the Prototype (Part 2)

You can read part one here Awkun the Prototype (Part 1) Excited from a quick and fulfilling success with the first version of Awkun. I decided it was time to move on to upgrades. After all, despite being functional. The first version was mostly just a kit with custom code. I was also familiar enough with Arduino, Voltage, Soldering, an…

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Online Personal Security

I’m often asked as a software engineer & penetration tester. What i use to protect myself online from malicious websites. While my typical response is to use common sense. Which will always be the most useful tool. This blog gives me the opportunity to not only recommend extensions by name but direct URL. It's also a link to refer to…

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Awkun the Prototype (Part 1)

Awkun, interesting enough, started my foray into Robotics from Software Engineering & Penetration Testing. Basically, like most I've met. I was looking for a “fun” project to start working with various Arduino boards in my spare time between contracts. Drone The thought of flying drones in all there various forms (Quad-copter, Push Yo…

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Cryptology, past, and, present

The Past Over the years I’ve worked with many Cryptology algorithms. In the mid 80’s and early 90’s for example, everyone, including myself. Where always trying to invent there own “unbreakable” encryption. Passing them over BBC, IRC, and, ICQ. I guess they where fun to test, break and re-make. But otherwise, nothing more than educational…

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